Pool D: Wales

What was your team’s best performance over the past year? The one that’s fresh in the memory is against Australia on our summer tour. Although we lost 30-10 at Stadium Australia in Sydney, we gave ourselves performance indicators and were there or thereabouts.

And the worst? When we were thrashed by New Zealand the following week. They went on to prove their strength in the TriNations, but we still took a bit of a hiding that day, as they beat us 55-3 in Hamilton. The Six Nations opener, losing 30-22 to Italy in Rome, was another bad performance. It was the first time we had been beaten by Italy. We never really recovered from that. It’s been that sort of year, though — we lost 10 games on